#pattanam

[ancientstuff]

Roman Sphinx seal-ring recovered from Pattanam

Fresh findings from excavations at Pattanam near North Paravur in Ernakulam — like a seal-ring with the image of a sphinx and the Graeco-Ro...

Huh. It would be marvellous if this site does turn out to be a fabled city. Always so exciting.

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Pottery traditions of the Pattanam region - KCHR-BM production 2012 ( A documentary)

Pottery traditions of the Pattanam region – KCHR-BM production 2012 ( A documentary)

Ethnoarchaeology survey conducted in September 2012 at Pattanam region, Kerala, India, by the KCHR in collaboration with BM, as part of the International wor…

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[archaeologicalnews]

Was Pattanam an urban trade centre?

‘Ivory from Muziris’, a research paper published this year by noted epigraphist and scholar of Roman history Federico De Romanis contends that ‘Muziris Papyrus’, a significant document on the Indo-Roman trade, contains monetary evaluation of three quarters of an Indian cargo loaded on a ship, Hermapollon.

Among the listed cargo transported by the vessel from the ancient port of Muziris to the Mediterranean were 167 elephant tusks weighing 3,228.5 kg and schidai, arguably fragmented tusks of inferior value, weighing 538.5 kg. Read more.

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Rare findings at Pattanam excavation site

KOCHI: The sixth season of the Pattanam excavations at North Paravur near Kodungalur have found 2,000 ancient pottery shreds, which according to the experts of Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), are unique and new to the archaeological world.

According to KCHR, which leads the excavation process, the findings are different from the already known Mediterranean, West Asian, Harappan and Chinese pottery remains and an international expertise is required to shed more light on it. Remains of a human skeleton were also found in one of the sites, which will be sent for DNA examination.

KCHR head of Pattanam excavations P J Cherian, said new findings will be addressed at an international workshop which the council is planning in collaboration with the British Museum, London. "No expert associated with the project was able to identify the shreds, with anything found elsewhere in the world. It is a challenge for the archaeological community. Read more.